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World premiere  ·  2 January 2027

Going Dry

Everything to gain.

Six average or middle lane drinkers take a break for ninety days, on camera. And the results are staggering.

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7pm GMTUK and Europe
7pm ESTNorth America
Online90 minutes, plus a live Q&A
Official selectionMelbourne Documentary Film FestivalMelbourne, Australia
Official selectionDevour, The Food Film FestWolfville, Nova Scotia
FeaturingRich Roll  ·  Dr Rangan Chatterjeeand Professor David Nutt
The film

A world first.

Nobody has ever made a documentary about what happens when middle lane or average drinkers take a break from alcohol. Not the people in trouble.

The people who are fine, but wonder if their life might be better without it.

Going Dry follows six of them through sixty to ninety days, tracking their stats to see what it does to a body, a mind and a life.

Some of what happens is hard to believe. One participant's cholesterol went from 303 to 220.

Some of it is hard, including the friend who uninvites you from the big game once you mention you're not drinking.

Alongside them, Andy travels the globe to meet the world's leading scientists, and finds the whistleblowers who broke ranks to say what really goes on.

This is a film about the alcohol-free advantage.

The Going Dry poster artwork, a cocktail glass shattering mid-splash
Who is in it

The people who actually know.

Not commentators. The scientists who ran the studies, the clinician who treats the fallout, and the man who invented the alcohol-free spirits category.

Rich Roll in conversation with Andy Ramage
Rich Roll, on camera with Andy.
Andy Ramage with Ben Branson, the founder of Seedlip
Ben Branson, who created the alcohol-free spirits category, in his lab.
Rich RollUltra-endurance athlete and podcast host
Dr Rangan ChatterjeePhysician and broadcaster
Professor David NuttNeuropsychopharmacologist, formerly the UK government's chief drugs adviser
Dr Nzinga HarrisonPhysician, addiction medicine
Ben BransonFounder of Seedlip, who created the alcohol-free spirits category
Andy RamageHost, and the coach who takes all six through it
The six

Our middle lane or average drinkers.

They all agreed to take a break and to see what happened. Would their health improve? Would they succumb to the social pressure to drink? And what would they learn about themselves.

Todd at his fire station in Atlanta Todd

A firefighter in Atlanta, drinking to come down from a job that will not let him.

John on a rowing machine John

Fifty, a marketing executive in England, drinking the way his work expects him to.

Alisha playing violin with her band Alisha

A single mother in West Virginia, a preschool teacher and a musician, stretched thin.

Nikki and Courtney at home Nikki and Courtney

A couple with two children, for whom drinking is simply part of a social life.

And Brandon, a city professional and father of two in Des Moines, doing what everybody around him does.

Three of them went on to retrain as coaches.

Behind the camera

The team that made it.

Between them: Sundance, Cannes, TIFF and Hot Docs, an Academy Award nomination, an Emmy, and a bill passed through the US Congress. Alongside one of the leading voices in the alcohol-free movement.

Three years, four countries, six lives filmed from start to finish.

The Going Dry crew filming on location, Andy Ramage interviewing to camera
Jon HyattWritten and directed by. Also cinematographer and editor. His last film, Screened Out, was named in Variety's top films of 2020 and helped pass a bipartisan bill through the US Congress
Karina RotensteinProducer and writer. Former festival programmer at TIFF, Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca and Hot Docs. Credits include the Academy Award nominated Edith + Eddie and the Emmy winning Jane for Apple TV+
Elizabeth RadshawProducer. Director of Hot Docs Industry Programs, who shepherded Fireball with Werner Herzog and The Lost Leonardo
Eric PaquetteProducer. Senior executive at MGM and Sony on the James Bond franchise, and executive producer of Doctor Odyssey for ABC
Andy RamageHost and producer. Presents the film and coaches all six participants through their break. Over a decade alcohol-free and coined the term middle lane drinker
Infinite Focus FilmsThe production company behind the film
The premiere

One night. Two watch times.

The premiere is live and online, with an introduction from Andy and a Q&A afterwards. Pick whichever time works where you are, and watch it from your own front room with a few thousand other people doing the same thing.

Pay what you wish, from $5. Every penny goes back into getting this film in front of more people.

From the poster: better sleep, relationships, weight, clarity, mental health, energy, heart, endurance, life
UK and Europe

7pm GMT

Saturday 2 January 2027

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North America

7pm EST

Saturday 2 January 2027

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Going Dry is aspirational and motivational. There is no wagging the finger. Going Dry is aimed at the middle lane or average drinker. This makes it the perfect movie to share with a friend or loved one, who might also be interested to find out what life is like without alcohol.

You can easily, at the point of sale, give a gift of Going Dry. Just ninety minutes that says it better than anyone else could.

Tickets are handled by Kinema, where you can buy more than one. Spaces are limited.

The Going Dry film poster
Host a screening

Show it to your own room or with a community online.

Run your own screening of Going Dry, on your own date, for your own people. A workplace, a running club, an online community group, a book club, a team.

You set the ticket price and you keep 45% of what your screening takes. We give you the poster, the invitation to copy and paste, and a set of questions to open the conversation afterwards.

It is your event, with our film in it.

Your host

Andy Ramage

Andy presents the film and coaches all six participants through their break. He has been alcohol free for over a decade.

Andy Ramage co-founded one of the world's largest alcohol-free challenge platforms, reaching over a million people. He's now considered one of the world's leading alcohol-free performance coaches and coined the term middle-lane drinker.

He is an author and speaker, a TEDx speaker, a lecturer at the PFA Business School, and holds an MSc with distinction in positive psychology and coaching psychology.

The premiere is not until January. Until then, there is the podcast.

The Alcohol-Free Advantage has been in the top 10 of the UK self-development chart, and there is a new episode every week. It is the best place to sit with these ideas before you ever watch the film.

Listen to the podcast

Or read more about Andy at andyramage.com.

Andy Ramage
One night only

Six people just like you, who wanted to find out what life would be like without alcohol.

Ninety days, on camera, with everything measured. Come and watch what happened. The results are incredible.

Get your ticket

Saturday 2 January 2027. Pay what you wish, from $5.

Infinite Focus Films presents “Going Dry”
Starring Andy Ramage. Featuring Rich Roll, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, David Nutt, Dr Nzinga Harrison.
Cinematographer and editor Jon Hyatt. Senior animator Steve Otvos. Colourist Jason Han. Sound designer Joshua Hemming.
Written by Karina Rotenstein and Alexia Naidoo.
Produced by Jon Hyatt, Karina Rotenstein, Elizabeth Radshaw, Andy Ramage and Eric Paquette.
Written and directed by Jon Hyatt.